Job 30:3-6
3 Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground; 4 they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom. 5 They are driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief. 6 In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 30:3-6
Commentary on Job 30:1-14
(Read Job 30:1-14)
Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.